This letter was written by me and addressed to my son Samuel, who years ago became emotionally involved with a young non-believer, at that time my wife and I were very concerned and began a battle for the salvation of his soul. Lord, he considered the Word of God and, by his mercy, delivered my beloved son from the “curse of the foreign woman”. Today he is married to Helen, a servant of God, with whom he has a sweet daughter in the alliance. Sara.
The purpose of the publication of this letter is to warn young people who are in the same emotional implication, to be seduced by Belial until the arrow pierces their hearts; Like the bird that rushes into the rope, not knowing it can cost you your life?Do I also want to encourage you to listen to the voice of wisdom?Lord Jesus.
- My dear son Samuel.
- My firstborn.
- Devotee of the Lord.
- My mother and I love him very much and have great hopes of seeing him happy and blessed.
- Especially in helping the Cause of the Master.
- We have prayed for you all the time.
- Especially now that you are going through this trial.
- As your father and also as your shepherd.
- I want.
- With great love.
- But also firmly.
- To bring you.
- In the name of the Lord.
- A biblical exhortation that I hope can help you.
- Make the right decision in this case.
My son, God has set out, since eternity, to choose a people for himself, to save him and to separate him from the other peoples, so that it may be exclusively his own, he established an alliance with him to relate to him and to put a specific point on him. seal on it (a mark) to distinguish it and strictly prohibit the most intimate relationship of one of its children with other sinners. I want to show you in the scriptures, from Eden, this purpose on the part of the Lord. God promised a savior of Adam and Eve, as well as all his descendants (Genesis 3:15). Erin killed Abel and was not counted as belonging to the Alliance. Therefore, the descendant called a saint, or children of God, began in chapter 5 with Sao: “Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his likeness and image and called him Sao?”(Genesis 5: 3). Erin was not considered and Abel was already with the Lord.
In chapter 6 we find the first threat, which brought shame and destruction: How did men multiply on earth, and daughters were born to them, seeing the sons of God, that the daughters of men were beautiful, took women for themselves ? ? (Genesis 6: 1-2). This contamination provoked the wrath of God who came to repent of having made man and destroyed most of them in the flood. Mixed marriage reduced the number of alliance participants to 8! From Noah, God chose Shem and thus took over the holy lineage of Abraham, when, more clearly, he revealed his will to maintain a distinguished people on earth, to the praise of his glory, calling Abraham and establishing a covenant with him . . When his son Isaac reached adulthood, Abraham sent his servant and his relatives to seek the line of Shem, a wife to be the wife of his son. Abraham was so adamant in insisting that he could only be a young woman in his family that he made the servant girl solemnly swear by placing her hand under his thigh (Genesis 24: 1-9). Why? Because Abraham knew the purposes of the Lord and the terrible damage that could occur if the holy line were contaminated.
The same thing happened when Jacob and Sau were of marrying age. Rebekah and certainly his father Isaac were sad and concerned that their children may contaminate the covenant by mixed marriage, see: (Genesis 27:46 and 28:1-9). Jacob obeyed, but Sau did not and was excluded. Another threat appears in chapter 34 of the same book, with Din’s rape. A forged “conversion” was proposed, which would be of serious consequences for the whole people. , and God used the hatred of Dina’s brethren to destroy these “circumcised” men of Shechem.
Many years passed before Satan again threatened the purity of the Covenant and God’s people with the sin of the mixed relationship. Now God’s people were crossing the desert. Balak, king of the Moabites, fearing Israel, hired Balaam to curse the people, but Balaam, though he wanted, could not do so; it was then that, inspired by Satan, he taught Balak a bad and foolproof formula: the mixed relationship (Numbers 31:15-16) This resulted in a great judgment on God’s part against the people and 24,000 people died of a terrible plague, which only ended when Phineas pierced a spear to an Israelite who wept as he clung to his foreign girlfriend (Nm 24?Read it all). ) We have samson’s case later, God used Samson’s follies to free Israel, but that does not absolve him of the guilt of marrying and then having sex with women who were not in the covenant.
When he wanted to marry a Philistine, his parents reproached him (Judges 14:1-3) because they knew that this disobedience smelled of ruin and death. Now the scriptures expose the sad experience of Solomon, a young king, who had the support of his father who counseled him (1 Kings 2:1-4) and taught him (Prov 4). He had the best intentions, asked for wisdom and received it, but was ruined by the sin of mixed marriage. Chapter 11 of 1 Kings says: “Now, in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter, Solomon loved many foreign women: Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites. “Little Benites and Hittites, women of the nations that the LORD had said to Israel, Do not marry them, nor marry you, for they would pervert your heart to follow their gods; to these, did Solomon hold on for love?
After exile, after great suffering, the people finally return to their land, at the mercy of God. But Ezra discovers that something was wrong and the threat struck people again, it was the sin of mixed marriage. Under the leadership of the priest Ezra, people were strongly urged and great dismay and sorrow was felt about those who had returned to Zion for being involved in mixed marriage. In the tenth chapter of Ezra we see the description of this fact and the drama that took place in the difficult task of having to return foreign women and their children.
Nehemiah, a servant of the Lord, at the same time, as governor, using his authority, dealt harshly with those involved. “Did I fight them and curse them, hit some of them and ripped their hair out?” and he warned them, reminding them of what had happened to Solomon, whose foreign wives caused him to fall into sin. (Born 13: 21-27) In the New Testament, nothing has changed in this sense, the covenant is the same and its terms as well. In Christ we have been called under the covenant to the community of Israel (Ephesians 2: 12-13). Now we are God’s holy people (I Peter 2: 9-10), His children, and the same thing He demanded of them in the Old Testament He now demands of us: “Are you not under the yoke of unbelievers unequally? Between Christ and the Evil One? Or what union of the believer with the unbeliever? (II Cor. 6: 14-18). Marriage only, in the Lord? (I Cor. 7:39). Therefore, son mine, We cannot even admit a relationship, even if only sentimental, of a son of the covenant, with an impious daughter, daughter of Belial. Remember that for the Lord Jesus it is not only a sin that is external, but the one that already exists in the heart (Matthew 5: 27-28).
My son, for whom I shed tears, interceding and pleading daily before the throne of grace. I know that this feeling is involuntary, and you are not responsible for it, but for facilitating its appearance and for seeing it nourish and protect it. It is sin and God grieves. You have to be tougher against sin, not caress what becomes like cancer in your heart that ultimately leads to death. Pray to God and plead with him to remove this feeling from his heart. Take severe action against him. Trim all media to feed. Do exactly as the text says: “Turn away from them, turn away, saith the Lord. “(II Co. 6: 17, 18). I know it hurts, but the Lord has suffered much more for you. I know you tried to resist, but?” Now, in your fight against sin, haven’t you resisted blood yet?(Hebrews 12:4). We pray for you, your mother, and I, hoping that God will grant you, not just repentance. but also the return to common sense, freeing him from the devil’s bonds ??(II Timothy 2:26).